{"id":284,"date":"2006-10-10T18:57:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T17:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/10\/barenaked-matchboxes\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T18:59:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T17:59:27","slug":"barenaked-matchboxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/barenaked-matchboxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Barenaked Matchboxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twice now I&#8217;ve heard the new [Barenaked Ladies][] song on the radio and thought to myself:<\/p>\n<p>[barenaked ladies]: http:\/\/www.bnlmusic.com\/<\/p>\n<p>*Who&#8217;s that? Sounds like Matchbox 20. In fact, that sounds so much like Matchbox 20, that it can&#8217;t be anyone other than Matchbox 20. Surely.*<\/p>\n<p>And then Chris Evans or Terry Wogan will say &#8220;And that&#8217;s the fabulous new song from the Barenaked Ladies, and it&#8217;s called [Easy][], and it&#8217;s fabulous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[easy]: http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/samples\/m3u\/album\/10939212\/0.m3u<\/p>\n<p>Click that link to listen to the song, and tell me that it doesn&#8217;t sound exactly like Matchbox 20.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll ponder on how much the Barenaked Ladies&#8217; new song sounds like Matchbox 20, and how ashamed they should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice now I&#8217;ve heard the new [Barenaked Ladies][] song on the radio and thought to myself: [barenaked ladies]: http:\/\/www.bnlmusic.com\/ *Who&#8217;s that? Sounds like Matchbox 20. In fact, that sounds so much like Matchbox 20, that it can&#8217;t be anyone other than Matchbox 20. Surely.* And then Chris Evans or Terry Wogan will say &#8220;And that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}